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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ferguson, Jason L.; Ready, Douglas D. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
Inherited privilege and status remain powerful factors in the distribution of opportunity in American life. These transfers of socioeconomic resources across generations are facilitated by the links between adult educational attainment and children's cognitive skills. Our current study expands the notion of social reproduction beyond this narrow…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Educational Attainment, Young Children, Grandchildren
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Hemmeter, Mary Louise; Snyder, Patricia; Kinder, Kiersten; Artman, Kathleen – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
We examined the effects of a professional development intervention that included data-based performance feedback delivered via electronic mail (e-mail) on preschool teachers' use of descriptive praise and whether increased use of descriptive praise was associated with changes in classroom-wide measures of child engagement and challenging behavior.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Intervention